Hi all, my name is Nermin but all of my friends know me as Dado! I'm not a regular member of the Mitrovica Rock School but I'm always around. I play in band Dark Sky with Milan, Filip and Emir! Skopje was amazing experience!See you again sometimes!

Hi! I'm
Bakir, I from Mostar. I'm 15 years old and I play bass guitar in band Hypersten. I
play guitar since I was 11. Skopje Summer School was unique experience and I think this project is amazing in geneal!

Hi all, my name is Milos and I study in Mitrovica. I'm basically new member of the Mitrovica Rock Scool but I play bass guitar for several years and I never miss the event Mitrovica Rock School is organizing! Skopje was amazing experience and I hope I will go again next year!See ya!

Hi, I’m Murat and I play guitar. This was my first time that I performed in Skopje. Had a good time there…

Hello! My name is Ajdin Brkovic, 18 years old and I'm a singer in band Hypersten. I also write songs. You can see about my band on our Facebook page. I also produce electronic music.Skopje was amazing!

Hello! My name is Nemanja and I'm a member of the Mitrovica Rock School for a long time now! I work as a trainee bass teacher and I'm a member of the A-team band the Artchiets. In Mitrovica I play in band Omnibusi. We had a great time this time as always and my band recorded two new singles!

I’m Visar, I sing in the rock school and play piano, I enjoy
writing songs, going out with friends, and food. I participated in Skopje
Summer Scool in 2008, 2010, and now I was a part of this year’s summer
school.

Hey
there, my name is Ivan Boras, 20 years old. I was born in Mostar and i've lived
here all my life. I play guitar/bass guitar for couple of years now, played in a few bands so far, I also play drums for six months now, nothing special thou.

I was really looking forward to Skopje Summer School because I have learned a lot of new stuff about music, gear, playing and getting a good tone on
guitars!

Hi, my name is Drilon and I’m
bass player in Mitrovica Rock School’s
band “The Crackers”. It passed almost one year since I started playing bass guitar
and I really enjoy it, before I played guitar. This was my first time at Skopje
Summer School, and I hope I will get the chance to go next year! This year was great experience and I enjoyed our stay there.

Hello everyone! My name is Emir and I play guitar since 2000. I'm a member of the Mitrovica Rock School A-team band the Artchitects and also a member of the Dark Sky, a band I formed with my friend in 2005.

Hello! My name
is Mirza Alendar, I'm 17 years old and I play drums for 2 and a half years now. I'm
a drummer in a band in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I learned to play drums on
my own, and I also play sports such as soccer, skiing and boxing.

4 September 2012

I'm 18 and my all time favorite hobbies are
music and sport. Since I was a little boy, I always enjoyed singing and making
music in our school and in different organization in our city. I also play
tennis in my spare time.

I’m Vesa, a drummer at Mitrovica Rock School-South Branch. This was my third
time coming to Skopje Summer School, and
I’m kind of familiar, but this year was a lil’ bit different because of
the fact that there is a new rock school from Mostar was there, and it was very interesting J

We’ll had a great time, like we do every year, and learned new things as
well.Cheers!

Hello, my name is Milena Ilievska, I am 23, and I study English language and literature in Northern Mitrovica.

I joined Mitrovica Rock School couple of months before the Skopje Summer School 2011 as a drum player and since then the fun didn't stop! As far as music is concerned I listen to many genres, classic and alternative rock, progressive and psychodelic rock, punk, ska, drum'n'bass, dubstep, and currently I am totally into trip-hop.

Last year was too much fun and with Mostar Rock School included this year will be without a doubt unforgettable. See you there....

Hi all! My name is Savica and I'm 17 years old. I don't play any instrument but I sing. I sing since I was 4 and I participated in various singing festivals in Serbia.I'm attending the Mitrovica Rock School for few months now and I sing in a band.

Mitrovica Rock School is a beautiful experience for me and I can't wait to go to my first Summer School!See you all in Skopje!

18 August 2012

Helooooo. My name is
Filip. I am 20 years old. I start to play drums before 4 years in Mitrovica Rock School, I'm also a member of a band "The Artchitects". So I hope that
we gonna have great time in Skopje, and see yaaa sooonnn.

My name is Lenart, this is my third time in
Skopje and I’m waiting for the biggest experience of the summer like we did
last years… I play guitar and I'm the member of the Artchitects, Mitrovica Rock School A-team.See you in Skopje!

This is my first time to write an introduction for the Skopje Summer School, the first trip to Skopje too ... and it's a good feeling :)I’m Adelina Haxhani. I’m 17 years old. I play keyboard and I'm a part of the band called “The Green Hypnosis”. Except Rock School, I go to the musical high school “Tefta Tashko” in Mitrovica.I enjoy spending time taking pictures and listening to music at the same time. It’s the most beautiful feeling! I can't wait to meet you all, so see you there…and hope that we’ll have a great time together!!!

28 June 2012

Beside the concerts, living room sessions, and recordings,
Mitrovica rock school also very often organizes workshops, with great musicians
which share their music experience and give a lot to the MRS
students. This time was all about Funk music, creativity, and promoting
yourself as a new artist.

The Funk Workshop

Groove Embassy is a funk band from The Netherlands. While
touring in Balkans they stopped in Mitrovica, to give us a crash
course of funk music. Their excitement was big, because it was the first
time they did a workshop, but in the same time excitement of the Mitrvica Rock School students was enormous. Sharing a lot of ideas and also showing us their impression with the music
industry, The Grove Embassy finished the workshop.

The Internet Promotion
Workshop

“Promoting yourself as an artist nowadays is easy” said
Dyzack, who in the very beginning amazed us with a great guitar performance
before starting the workshop about promotion and especially, how we can use the
internet to promote ourselves. With a lot of new information, the MRS students
were ready to rock in a concert which took place in Lane Bar, along Dyzack and
The Groove Embassy.

The Concert

Everybody was prepared and everybody couldn’t wait to play. After
The four rock school bands who did a very nice gig, the amazing Dyzack took the
stage and totally rocked it. Then in the very end, everybody was smelling FUNK.
The Grove Embassy grooved the roof, and the concert was over.

Mitrovica Rock School, with a very large number of
musicians/friends, all over the world is preparing for the next year, while
having a summer vacation and showing everybody our proud faces for an
incredibly successful year !

29 May 2012

Just like every year, this time also, thestudents from the
RA visited the Mitrovica Rock School.

The brand new thing this time, was the
songwriting workshop. Despite the other workshops, we had two
songwriting workshops on the south branch, with Merit and Katja.

A very nice idea, for, most of the
students that are at the school at the moment, are generally new musicians, which don't have that much
knowledge about writing songs.

We have learned, and shared many ideas
and methods about writing a song, most of which were pretty easy and handy
ways/ tips of helping you out in case your mind gets stuck while trying to
write music.

Each of the students worked individually
with Katja and/or Merit, they wrote a part of a song, first worked on the
lyrics, then on the chords and harmony and afterwards with one of the most
important things in music, the performance!

So, basically it wasn't just a
song-writing oriented workshop, but we also have been working on vocal
technique, appearance, performance, and many other small problems that we
thought we had during our performances aswell.

At the end of the training week, there
was the concert on Thursday evening at Lane Bar, on which the bands played
their original songs, the RA students were the special appearance and also the
last act of the night.

As a bottom line, It's been a very
pleasant and productive week for us!

23 March 2012

It's been the fourth time now, that the teachers from the Mitrovica Rock School went to Holland for the yearly training week at the Rock Academy in Tilburg. But something special that we never did before, happened this year! Except of the teachers/coaches that go regularly, this time, the interns of the school (each for their instrument) joined also! :)

The big adventure started on Sunday, March 11. After we arrived, we unpacked and were getting ready for the week! The place where we were staying, called "Beekse Bergen",was like a big park, full of little bungalows in a really nice place, with a lot of trees, grass and a big lake! It was about a 10 minutes drive from Tilburg.

So on Monday we we're ready to go! We've gotten our schedules and plans for the week and started. Each of us had different workshops, in different classes, sometimes at the same time and sometimes not, sometimes as a group and sometimes as individuals.

Besides the work, we also went out, in the sun and enjoyed the excellent weather that we we're having, and at nights visited different places and restaurants on which we had dinner. Not to forget to mention the great dinner that Wendy and Dafina cooked for us, at the Bungalow where we stayed for 5 days! (thanks so much girls, you rock! ;) )

Also our dear Gerdien invited us for dinner one night, where we had a really pleasant time, thanks to the cozy house, atmosphere, nice people, jam session, and of course the super delicious food that her husband cooked for us! yummy!

And it was Ceni's birthday on Thursday, so our super talented cooks (Wendy and Dafina), were showing themselves again, by making a super dinner AGAIN! But this time, for 4 extra people, that we invited from the rock academy, which means for about 17 people! Really... good job! After a nice celebrating, we went out to watch some of the Rock Academie's students play live on a gig in the city.

We also visited Venlo a nice little city, and watched a band playing live. Another place we visited was the Hall of Fame, which is like a youth center, where young people could make gigs, parties, workshops, seminars, take band classes, skateboarding, and a lot more!

The days went unnoticeably fast! All I remember was arriving there on Sunday… and HOP it was Friday!

Friday was our last day in Tilburg and also the last day of workshops. We woke up, packed, and went to the Rock Academie, for the evaluation plan and at 3:30 P.M, we went to the train station, but not for going home! ..OH NO! The other adventure was waiting! We were heading straight to Amsterdam!! We had a whole weekend there, where we could get to know and enjoy the great city!

I have to say it was a very pleasant, relaxing but at the same time very efficient week on which we had a balanced working and social life. It was an amazing experience, especially for us (interns), because it was something totally new for us, but also for the teachers who were telling us that, it was also refreshing for them to have "a piece of youth" with them. It was a nice feeling to be there as part of the Staff of the Mitrovica Rock School (the grown ups;) ), get to know everyone better, and to be trained at a very professional level.

BOTTOM LINE:The Mitrovica Rock School still has it on, by keeping everything fresh, innovative and cool!

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Southeast Europe's first rock music school

The Mitrovica Rock School restores rock music culture to the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica, Kosovo. Local musicians teach the city’s future rock stars. Throughout the region, the Mitrovica Rock School is known as an example of a new way to bridge cultural differences.